Black Friday gooses retail sales

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Bit of a yawn this one:

Nov-2023 ($m) Oct-2023 to Nov-2023 (% change) Nov-2022 to Nov-2023 (% change)
Trend 36,181.5 0.5 2.8
Seasonally adjusted 36,511.8 2.0 2.2

Heavy discounting pulling forward Xmas sales is my guess.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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